Thousands of Sudanese March to Protest Violence Against Christians

(19 September 09-RV) A Bishop from a remote corner of south Sudan this week said intervention from the international community is desperately needed to protect his people from gangs of guerrilla fighters. Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio Diocese said that sporadic attacks on innocent civilians by the Lords Resistance Army could not be stopped without help from outside Sudan. Some twenty thousand people in South this week more than two miles barefoot in silent protest at alleged government inaction to step up security in the region. The bishop was speaking after a large gang of LRA soldiers stormed into a church in his diocese and desecrated the building before abducting 17 people mostly in their teens and 20s. Aid to the Church in Need spokesman John Pontifex told us more...